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Settlement platform

Rochfort Demesne, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Settlement platform, Rochfort Demesne, County Westmeath, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Rochfort Demesne
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.47193, -7.37931
SMR number
WM026-117----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

A cluster of rock platforms (WM026-115----/15001-) were identified by Karkov & Ruffing (1990-1, 108-110), on the E shoreline of Rochfort Bay on Lough Ennell. Listed as Rochfort Demesne 3 and described by O'Sullivan (2004, 97) as following; 'Located at east shore, on water’s edge in a small inlet on the south side of Rochfort Bay. The site would originally have been located c.5-10m from original shoreline. This is a small, oval rock platform (dims. 28m N-S x 24m E-W; H 1m) on a natural bedrock outcrop on a small peninsula in the lake water. It has an even profile, with large irregular limestone slabs (1.3m length, 1m width) scattered across its surface. There is a particularly large limestone block on its surface, possibly a glacial erratic? The nearest archaeological site is the crannóg at Goose Island (WM026-109----), 400m to north, a mound at Rochfort Demesne (WM026-048----), 550m to east. This site is a possible prehistoric or medieval rock platform, potentially associated with the early medieval crannóga at Goose Islands.'

Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Aidan O'Sullivan

Date of upload: 29 March 2017

References

O'Sullivan, A. 2004 The social and ideological roles of crannogs in early medieval Ireland. Unpublished PhD thesis. Department of History, NUI Maynooth.

Karkov, C. and Ruffing, J. 1990-1 The crannógs of Lough Ennell: A computer survey. Ríocht na Midhe, 8, 3, 105-113.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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